Nearly

Soooooooo close to $3k now. Observe:

Stars: $1005.15

FTP: $932.30

Party: $1023.39

Total: $2960.84

Here's the graph of all my Hold 'em hands over these 3 sites on my current database:

You'll notice this is only 9k hands. Which means i should play a LOT more. Playing full time i could get through 20k hands in a week.

Sadly i can't figure out how to use pokergrapher to graph my omaha database. Will look into it.

Going home to Southampton land tomorrow. Ideally before going back to uni, i'll get that $3k up to $7k, and withdraw $1k for living expenses/random spending etc. This is unlikely to happen, but it'd be nice :)

Deadlines etc

This week instead of going home like most, i have stayed at uni, due to one last deadline. Being a chronic procrastinator, this has led to one thing: procrastination. And for me, procrastination largely means playing poker. Although i have kept it to short sessions ("I won't play for long, I've got work to do"). Still, it's been going well, and i reckon when i get home i'll take some shots at $100NL. Although I may decide to bosh out 25k hands at $50 instead. We'll see. It'd be good to be back at $100NL though, cos $50NL is rigged ldo.

Bonus FTP graph this month (contains rungoot and lol-samplesizeaments):
Bankroll:
Stars: $1005.15

FTP: $890.00

Party: $855.52

Total: $2750.67

Also, been playing some min-bet Omaha hi/lo (lol poo-flinging?). Nice to have some variation from Hold 'em. Been reading Ray Zee's book on hi-lo split poker, and so far it seems excellent. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn/get better at Omaha hi/lo or Stud hi/lo.

Weeeeeeee

Woke up this morning and decided on a whim to play one of the $12/180 person turbo SnGs on stars. I took it down obv. Ship the $594! Screenshot:This was an important win for me, as i hardly play MTTs anymore, so was reaffirming to know I still have a clue what i'm doing :)

I withdrew $300 from this win, but my bankroll is still looking quite healthy.

The last few days i've played 1k hands of omaha along with usual NLHE and made $200. I reckon my winrate at $50PLO long term is greater than $50NLHE, just cos they really don't know how to play, whereas even the worst NL players know what constitutes a decent starting hand.

Anyway, with that win and cash games recently (been breaking even at NLHE last couple k hands) my bankroll is looking pretty good.

Stars: $1029.00
FTP: $747.15
Party: $808.40
Total: $2584.55

Will be looking to have >1k in each account by the new year, ready to take shots at 100NL. :) Hopefully be able to withdraw some too, to help with living expenses etc next term at uni!

lol-unexpected-blogaments

So much for my new found focus. Sigh. Haven't been playing much so haven't had anything to blog about. I imagine i'll post a lot more now it's xmas hols, and i'll actually be playing and have something to blog about. In the mean time, here's my last 2k hands in graph form just to placate some of you:

mini-swong

Just a quick post. Dropped a couple of hundo earlier this week due to bad/marginal/tilty play, and realised i was losing focus when playing. So i slapped myself a bit, and have been playing really well the last few days, although still stacked off unnecessarily once. Total roll is on about $2.1k now. With my new found focus, i'm determined to double my roll in the next month or so and get back to the $100NL games while overrolled! Also want to play a lot more on stars with the aim being to get myself a wii with fpps before xmas :). I have 9k at the moment and need 24k for the wii. I didn't play as much as usual last month, so i'm back down to silverstar vip, which will hinder my progress. It was fun over summer playing a fair bit and being a platinum star, cos i just seemed to get a ridiculous amount of FPPs. Also, I am no longer on course to make supernova by the end of the year, which is a shame. Oh well, I imagine i'll manage it next year.

lol prop-bet-aments

Apparently some people actually read this, so i'm gonna try and update it more often.

So, as some as you may know, Rupert, a balla from pokersoc and I have a £200 year long prop bet on who can come higher in the "warwick poker player of the year" leaderboard. So far neither of us have any POTY points, so we both run good obv. Unlike previous years at poker soc, for the most part i've been playing quite well, but the last THREE weeks I have made the last two tables yet still don't have a final table appearance :( Could really have used at least one final table appearance so i can take a lead in this prop bet. Tonight lost half my chips with AJ vs AT all in pre with 10 left. Would've put me on about 50k ~ 1/6th of the chips in play with 10 left. The AT made a very questionable call imo considering the action and the fact they still had plenty of chips left to wait for a better spot. Next hand I shoved like 14k at 1k/2k blinds UTG 5 handed with K7s and was out. Been thinking about that shove a bit, but i can't play it any differently, considering we're just 5 handed, I have an M of <5, the players at the table are pretty nitty, only 2 more until final table, and the big blind this hand is good/tight and has enough chips to want to avoid marginal spots. Sadly he had AJs, and it was an easy call :(. Pretty happy with my play in general, only think of one hand i definitely misplayed which cost me 4k. With those chips i don't shove with K7s, and i obv win the tournament. Lol chaos theory.

On the plus side, with all these last two table appearances, i am racking up the £££££s in my last longer bets with Rupert :). AND i won a coinflip in the tourny tonight! Which NEVER happens!

Didn't play much online over the weekend as i was working, and when i did play i generally spewed. But my discipline is improving, as whenever i saw myself do something spewy i managed to stop myself from carrying on playing. Still made $75 though, sweet.

Here's my bankroll atm:

FTP: $833.45
Party: $838.23
Stars: $460.06
RB due: $39.03
Total: $2170.77

Will post graph etc some other time. The hand i lost most on over the weekend was playing HU vs an weak passive station. He limped and i checked and the flop came AQJ. I decided i was going to win the pot, even though i knew it would take multiple bets to get him to fold. So i bet pot, he called. Turn was a T. I bet pot again. This might seem like spew, but he'd been overplaying when he had the nuts/close to it in general, so figure he'll shove a king here. So when he called (didn't raise) I thought i could shove (bit over pot by now i think) the river and get a fold from his entire range. Of course, he called and showed QQ. Obv put me on tilt, so i left.

Right, bed time,see ya.

TGIF

Since the last post i haven't played that much as i had a big assignment in today.

A couple of days ago i played a friend of mine heads up on full tilt for a bit. On paper he has a slight edge on me, as he has crushed MSNL on various sites the last few months, but during the game, i don't think i could say who had an edge. Misplayed a couple of hands against him, but came away +$50 which was good. In fact, it's mostly his influence that i am now operating really smart bankroll management, as i think that is the main thing that separates us (I used to randomly spew too, but seem to have stopped that), and thought it was unfair he was making all this money that i could easily be making too :).

But then i lost all that profit at various heads up razz tables on full tilt! Hmph. I made a bunch of money at $2/$4 and $3/$6, then saw some guy who i'm sure i have an edge against playing $5/$10, so i sat. He ran so good it was unreal. One of the biggest pots he won off me saw him 3-bet 5th street with 489 up when i had [6][2]A4A (the cards in [] were my down cards). Even if he has A2, my draw to a 6 is a favourite over his made 9/8 draw, and this best case scenario is unlikely as i have 2 aces and a deuce. So i capped. All the money went in and he showed J8 in the hole (so he had a pair of 8s and a DRAW to a jack low). I don't know if he saw my board had paired and thought "zOMG, raise raise raise!" or what. But i was >80% to win that pot. Obviously i hit QQ and he makes his jack low and gets a big pot shipped his way. We played about 4 big pots that went down like that. Considering how "easy" Razz is, there sure are a lot of players who make a lot of mistakes playing it.

NL cash has been going well, as you can see on the graph later.

Been trying some of the APPT step tournys on stars. I'm like -$60 or something in the step ones now, with no entries to step 2. Running bad and cold in them. A2 vs 22 on A2K flop for eg.

My current bankroll:

FTP: $842.25
Party: $784.74
Stars: $429.42
RB due: $39.03
Total: $2095.44

(I'm over $2k again, weeeeeeeeeeee)

This bankroll nit thing is going well, i'm still playing $50nl and now have 42 buy ins :). Will move up when i have at least $1k on each site.

Below is my graph since starting updating this blog again. This graph is a little misleading as it includes $50 from chip dumping and doesn't include the $50 i lost at Razz a couple of nights ago.


I don't think i'll get much done over the weekend, as i have a sizeable assignment in for tueday that i don't have a clue about yet! :S

Bonus hands:

lol, i run good.

expert call by villain

used mad reads/history to know that villain was weak, but on this flop would prob call a c-bet. So i check, looking for pot control/free card with the backup plan being to c-r the **** out of him! I think this villain has pretty much exactly {22-44, 66-88} here, so it's nearly impossible for them to call the cr, and if they do i have a bunch of outs. Obv i just got pwned by deuces instead.

Til next time.